Keeping mental health at an optimum is as important as physical health. Too often, this may be taken for granted and at times, is very detrimental to the individual. Our mind is connected to the body, and if the mind fails, then problems are sure to follow!
For example, a study conducted by the American Academy of Neurology wanted to know what will drive an individual's mental health into the wastebasket. The study had some interesting outcomes that might be worth noting. Overall, these outcomes were responsible for reducing optimum personal mental health.
One of the most striking findings is that losing a job or when it's the paycheck involved can spike problems and health can go awry. Some of the signs that one's sanity is not good are that these signs must be very apparent for some. These two factors are big players in giving the big shove that leads to mental health in a wastebasket. Such reduced performance is linked to less access to healthcare and more indulgence in drinking and non-beneficial habits. Here are the symptoms of the condition.
A. Thinking skill
Ability to decide is compromised, and more mistakes are likely to happen.
B. Bad memory
Mental health takes a bad turn that ends in bad recall, and absent-mindedness isn't good at all.
C. More time and difficulty performing tasks
Doing simple tasks and tests are not as easy, because of the mental state.
Equating sound mental health to having a job with a healthy bank account is logical. This can be correlated with getting older and how secure most individuals are as they age. It simply means that more income is preferred, with most individuals at ease with what happens next! When reaching middle age, this indicator is very apparent and gets worse with lower income brackets.
Examples of these are how much was earned by Americans in the 1980s and the economic setbacks later on. This was observed by Leslie Grasset PhD, who connected the condition to unstable conditions in the United States and in other countries. Inevitably, it triggered mental health problems resulting from extreme uncertainty!
Getting further evidence was done by enlisting individuals to participate in the study. Most of them were 23 to 35 years old when the study began. From 1990 to 2010, their income was tracked and analyzed. Additionally, an MRI scan was taken by selected individuals to collect evidence and to prove that mental health is dependent on income.
All evidence gained from MRIs and tasks demonstrated a distinct correlation to income drops that affected even their performance of tasks. An implication is that ageing was accelerated equally to more than a year of actual ageing! Overall, the study mapped out how mental health and income are connected.
It seems that mental health and income are important determiners to a person's well-being. This study has proven that more has to be done in addressing income and mental health for it not to be such a grave concern.
